Green nod for hydel projects to get simpler
Over a dozen pending hydroelectric power projects may soon take off, with the ministry of environment and forests soon to simplify clearance procedures and prescribe time limits for clearances. A
Over a dozen pending hydroelectric power projects may soon take off, with the ministry of environment and forests soon to simplify clearance procedures and prescribe time limits for clearances. A
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh put the conditional clearance to Posco project on hold basing on an e-mail, the Orissa Government report to the Centre has claimed that the anti-Posco activist have forged and fabricated documents on palli sabha resolutions. "The palli sabha resolutions relating to Gobindpur and Dhinkia villages appende
The Centre is revising the environmental norms for iron and steel sector and clearance to industries in this sector will be given on case-to-case basis, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today
The Centre is revising the environmental norms for iron and steel sector and clearance to industries in this sector will be given on case-to-case basis, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today
Coal secretary also said that since the IMG on coal blocks will be required to assess the situation with regard to grant of FC within a reasonable time period, it is considered necessary to co-opt a representative of MoEF on the panel The coal ministry has asked the environment ministry to assess the feasibility of grant of forest clearances (stage II) with regard to 10 coal blocks allocated to companies like Hindalco, JSPL, Tata Steel and Essar Power and send its comments by this week.
The Centre has accorded environmental clearance to the long pending Pulichintala project across the Krishna River. The state government received the formal clearance for the Rs 550 crore Project
Mumbai Jaydutt Kshirsagar, PWD Minister in charge of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, plans to meet Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday and press for speedy environmental clearance to several delayed projects, particularly the Peddar Road flyover.
Prime minister also announces measures to provide green clearances within 30 days Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched India’s first-ever Air Quality Index at the inaugural of a two-day meeting with
The Supreme Court today ruled that mining of small minerals in Haryana and Rajasthan even in areas measuring less than five hectares could be allowed only after environmental clearance from the Union Ministry
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Illegal sand mining on river beds, 14/03/2016. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification,
New Delhi: Non-government wildlife experts who are on the PM-chaired National Board of Wildlife are planning to write a joint letter to PM Manmohan Singh complaining of alleged illegalities and malpractices
C H I E F O P E R A T I N G O F F I C E R , V E D A N T A A L U M I N I U M The environment ministry on Tuesday denied clearance to Vedanta's proposed $1.7-billion bauxite mining project at Lanjigarh in Orissa, citing serious violation of forest and environment laws.
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) has designated the entire hill range as an Ecologically Sensitive Area. The panel, in its report, has classified the 142 taluks in the Western Ghats boundary
Will review compliance of the project with various statutory provisions and central, state clearances. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has expanded the terms of reference of the Meena Gupta committee probing into alleged violations of the Forest Rights Act at the Posco project site in Orissa. The order amending the terms of reference said that it will now review the compliance
New Delhi: The government has cleared a bulk of the 52 exploration blocks that were bid out successfully but were stuck over defence and environmental clearances, oil secretary G C Chaturvedi said on Sunday.
Responding to complaints from within and outside the State government about how illegal mining operations are stripping Goa, the Union government has put on hold all environmental clearances for mining proposals in the State.
Seed companies and agriculture research institutes in India can go ahead with scientific filed trials of different transgenic varieties of GM crops which had got clearance from the government's regulatory
NCR builders fudge water usage data, finds Centre for Science and Environment The water shortage residents are facing in the NCR region may have a connection with lax environmental clearance procedures
The CAG’s report on the CWG that is likely to be tabled in Parliament on Friday, has blamed the DDA for not abiding with the conditions set forth by the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) before
<p>The environmental clearance for the 6mtpa integrated steel plant at Kerjang in Orissa by JSPL project was accorded on February 22nd, 2007. Stage-1 forest clearance was given on March 20th, 2010 and final forest clearanc eof 168.232 hectares was given on October 28th, 2010. In response to a complaint dated November 6th, 2010 recieved from the Wildlife Society of India, Orissa, MoE&am